You need to raise your pet using a system [Era]

Chapter 217 Acquaintances

In the following days, the villagers were busy with their work, while also watching Zhao Zhongcai and the educated youth engage in a battle of wits and courage.

Time flies. It feels like the first batch of villagers just arrived. They gradually got used to village life and worked hard from dawn till dusk every day.

Zhao Zhongcai finally 'tamed' them, preventing them from causing him trouble from time to time.

He received another notice from his superiors, instructing him to go to the next group of educated youth.

Zhao Zhongcai's face immediately darkened.

Lu Yuanqing found it amusing. "Uncle Zhao, you should hurry up and go! The educated youth are waiting for you!"

Things are different now. When Zhao Zhongcai hears the words "educated youth," he no longer has the same curious and friendly attitude as before!

"Come with me!" Zhao Zhongcai was preparing to recruit a man.

Lu Yuanqing glanced at the work in his hands and said, "Alright!"

It was Zhao Zhongcai driving the oxcart as usual.

"I heard that this time there are not only educated youth, but also other people, and they even said something about being sent down to the countryside!" Zhao Zhongcai said, bored, about the information about the trip to pick up the educated youth.

Lu Yuanqing subconsciously asked, "What kind of 'sent down'..."

He was about to say something, but the words just got stuck in his throat.

What other forms of decentralization are there?

"Uncle Zhao, have you heard that the people being sent down to the countryside this time will come to our village?" Lu Yuanqing asked hurriedly.

Zhao Zhongcai: "I don't know! But I do know who the educated youth who came to our village were—there were five of them!"

Zhao Zhongcai said, speechless.

What's this? The quantity keeps increasing each time!

Zhao Zhongcai was able to know this information in advance because of his experience in the first half of the year.

Drawing lots at the last minute would be too time-consuming. The educated youth office would obtain the information of the educated youth going to the countryside well in advance, and they would separate these people in advance and determine their destinations before the educated youth even arrived.

Zhao Zhongcai was thus able to know the personnel and basic information of those going to the countryside in advance.

Lu Yuanqing wasn't concerned about the educated youth, but rather those who had been sent down to the countryside.

But asking too many questions about this kind of thing could easily arouse suspicion, so he didn't ask any more questions and instead thought he should go and see what was going on first.

Lu Yuanqing was filled with curiosity and sympathy, but he never expected to see an acquaintance.

Ren Pingsheng never expected that he would see Lu Yuanqing here.

"You stay here and watch the oxcart, I'm going to find the educated youth!" Zhao Zhongcai didn't notice anything amiss. He tied up the oxcart and headed towards the bustling commune.

Now, on the dam at the entrance of the commune, a group of energetic young people are chatting and laughing, their luggage scattered all over their bodies and the ground around them.

They're clearly young people who haven't experienced the harsh realities of farm work.

In any case, in less than half a year, Lu Yuanqing no longer had such brilliance in the eyes of Wu Cisheng and the others.

Although they still shouted slogans every day without fail, and no matter how painful it was to work in the fields, they still had to work honestly, but the gleam in their eyes showed no sign of having just arrived in the countryside.

That's true. The money-making businesses in the village, such as pig farms and bamboo ware factories, have nothing to do with them.

Over time, they even discovered that they were not as wealthy as the villagers.

Closer to home.

Far away from the group of educated youth, among a small, disheveled and broken-down group, Lu Yuanqing never expected to see two familiar faces.

One of them was something he genuinely hadn't expected at all.

One was that although he had some suspicions, he thought the other party would be demoted, but he didn't expect that they would be demoted here.

"Yuanqing, there's a letter for you at the post office. I just passed by and saw it. I was thinking of bringing it back to you when I went back to the village, but I didn't expect you to come to the commune too!"

Just as Lu Yuanqing was feeling conflicted, wondering whether he should help, he suddenly heard someone from the same village visiting relatives in the commune.

"Okay, thank you, I'll go get it myself!" Lu Yuanqing said loudly in thanks.

At this moment, Ren Pingsheng lowered his head, pretending not to recognize him.

Another acquaintance, a young girl who had been huddled next to an elderly person with her head down, suddenly heard a slightly familiar voice and instinctively looked up.

Lu Yuanqing did not see the complicated look in Xie Qianyu's eyes.

He greeted the oxcart guards from the other production teams next door and then strode toward the post office.

He had a strange feeling that he knew who had written to him.

Ren Pingsheng was originally a university professor and a native of Jiang'an City. If possible, Lu Yuanqing would never have met him in his entire life.

But the world's arrangements are always so coincidental.

He went to Jiang'an City and learned about his third uncle, who had been abducted as a child. He brought Cheng Xiaobao back with him, and because of Cheng Xiaobao, the Lu family and the Qin family became close.

Therefore, when Qin Yang married Ren Ranran a year ago, even though Lu Yuanqing was so busy, he still managed to take a few days off to bring Cheng Xiaobao to witness this joyous occasion.

It was at that wedding that he met Ren Ranran's father.

Thinking back to the letter Qin Yang wrote earlier this year, boasting that his wife was pregnant, that he had a son, and that Cheng Xiaobao had a younger brother.

Lu Yuanqing was happy for him at the time and wrote back to strongly condemn his foolish behavior as a first-time father.

Based on the timeline, it's likely that Ren Ranran was about to give birth around the time Ren Pingsheng had his accident.

Hopefully, there won't be any bad news.

With that thought in mind, Lu Yuanqing skillfully retrieved the letter.

Two letters, one of which, unsurprisingly, was from Qin Yang.

The other letter, however, was sent back by Lu Yuanhuan.

I came back for summer vacation, and I haven't been back at school for long, but I still received a letter.

Lu Yuanqing didn't open the letters immediately. Instead, he took the two letters and walked out of the post office, looking up at the sky helplessly.

The letter in my hand is a troublesome thing.

He felt as if all the dust had settled.

There's no need to dwell on the inner turmoil anymore.

Lu Yuanqing tugged at the corners of his mouth, but the smile was faint; a bitter smile would have been more appropriate.

With a sigh, Lu Yuanqing accepted reality and opened the letter.

Needless to say, Qin Yang's letter first brought him good news: Ren Ranran had given birth to a son, and he had become a father.

Lu Yuanqing frowned. Was it premature? The timing didn't match up!

The following section contained many expressions of emotion, inner turmoil, and prayers.

The meaning is not obvious, and I dare not write it too obviously.

But the letter contained a torn-up newspaper.

The newspaper headline read, "XX University, XX student selflessly testifies against his teacher's crimes."

In the newspaper photo, the extremely disheveled person is none other than Ren Pingsheng.

Lu Yuanqing was mentally prepared and had no particular thoughts.

Just thinking about how Qin Yang must have gone to great lengths to get Ren Pingsheng to come here!

Lu Yuanqing picked up the letter Lu Yuanhuan had written back and began to read it.

That's more direct.

The letter asked him if he remembered Xie Qianyu, her roommate, and how the two gradually became friends after the theft incident.

Lu Yuanhuan said that Xie Qianyu's grandfather had some trouble, but Xie Qianyu was innocent.

Xie Qianyu's parents had already severed ties with Xie's grandfather through a public notice in the newspaper. Xie Qianyu could have done that too, but she went to the countryside with her grandfather.

As for Xie Qianyu and the others being able to come to the commune, it was purely a coincidence.

When Lu Yuanhuan heard the news, he was also surprised and hurriedly wrote back.

Lu Yuanhuan knew his place and didn't ask Lu Yuanqing to take care of Grandpa Xie, but instead asked him to take care of Xie Qianyu.

After all, Xie Qianyu has no problems.

After reading the two letters, Lu Yuanqing folded them, put them in his trouser pocket, and started walking towards the commune.